Watch surveillance video outside Douglas during school shooting

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and you notice how little play the failure of the FBI, Broward County and the school to do anything about a clear danger is getting.
Solid point. This seems to be a common thing.

I just took an "Active Shooter" training for the campus I work at and there were a few interesting facts that most civilians either don't know or ignore. One being the actual number of people killed via a school shooting vs. heroin, for example. The numbers are staggering, yet no outcry to eliminate it. VERY few people will ever encounter a school shooting scenario, yet the media sensationalizes them.
 

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Solid point. This seems to be a common thing.

I just took an "Active Shooter" training for the campus I work at and there were a few interesting facts that most civilians either don't know or ignore. One being the actual number of people killed via a school shooting vs. heroin, for example. The numbers are staggering, yet no outcry to eliminate it. VERY few people will ever encounter a school shooting scenario, yet the media sensationalizes them.
Heroin is illegal? You're right though but that's a straw-man, etc. Why does this seem to only happen in the US?
 
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Solid point. This seems to be a common thing.

I just took an "Active Shooter" training for the campus I work at and there were a few interesting facts that most civilians either don't know or ignore. One being the actual number of people killed via a school shooting vs. heroin, for example. The numbers are staggering, yet no outcry to eliminate it. VERY few people will ever encounter a school shooting scenario, yet the media sensationalizes them.
look at texting and driving.
 

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Maybe, but it doesn’t just happen here. In some countries entire families are Genocided...
I hear your point definitely. Don't want to make it political or nothin or making a huge claim for change, etc. More of it does seem to stand out more so here compared to Canada, UK, Nordic countries, western EU, etc. I know the pop. size plays too. It feels we have to look inward to see wth is going on is all.
 

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I hear your point definitely. Don't want to make it political or nothin or making a huge claim for change, etc. More of it does seem to stand out more so here compared to Canada, UK, Nordic countries, western EU, etc.


It just depends what your news source is but ooops, we aren’t number one...




So who's tops? Surprisingly, Norway is, with an outlier mass shooting death rate of 1.888 per million (high no doubt because of the rifle assault by political extremist Anders Brevik that claimed 77 lives in 2011). No. 2 is Serbia, at just 0.381, followed by France at 0.347, Macedonia at 0.337, and Albania at 0.206. Slovakia, Finland, Belgium, and Czech Republic all follow. Then comes the U.S., at No. 11, with a death rate of 0.089.

That's not all. There were also 27% more casualties from 2009 to 2015 per mass shooting incident in the European Union than in the U.S.

"There were 16 cases where at least 15 people were killed," the study said. "Out of those cases, four were in the United States, two in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom."

"But the U.S. has a population four times greater than Germany's and five times the U.K.'s, so on a per-capita basis the U.S. ranks low in comparison — actually, those two countries would have had a frequency of attacks 1.96 (Germany) and 2.46 (UK) times higher."

Yes, the U.S. rate is still high, and nothing to be proud of. But it's not the highest in the developed world. Not by a long shot.

https://www.investors.com/politics/...-s-isnt-the-worst-country-for-mass-shootings/
 

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It just depends what your news source is but ooops, we aren’t number one...




So who's tops? Surprisingly, Norway is, with an outlier mass shooting death rate of 1.888 per million (high no doubt because of the rifle assault by political extremist Anders Brevik that claimed 77 lives in 2011). No. 2 is Serbia, at just 0.381, followed by France at 0.347, Macedonia at 0.337, and Albania at 0.206. Slovakia, Finland, Belgium, and Czech Republic all follow. Then comes the U.S., at No. 11, with a death rate of 0.089.

That's not all. There were also 27% more casualties from 2009 to 2015 per mass shooting incident in the European Union than in the U.S.

"There were 16 cases where at least 15 people were killed," the study said. "Out of those cases, four were in the United States, two in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom."

"But the U.S. has a population four times greater than Germany's and five times the U.K.'s, so on a per-capita basis the U.S. ranks low in comparison — actually, those two countries would have had a frequency of attacks 1.96 (Germany) and 2.46 (UK) times higher."

Yes, the U.S. rate is still high, and nothing to be proud of. But it's not the highest in the developed world. Not by a long shot.

https://www.investors.com/politics/...-s-isnt-the-worst-country-for-mass-shootings/
"Well, slap me around and call me Susan" (Blankman). Was way off on my perspective obv. Thanks for the info/schoolin CF. It does "Seem" to occur more regularly (school shootings here). I'll look it up and get back to ya, etc. Too early for a Sat :)
 
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"Well, slap me around and call me Susan" (Blankman). Was way off on my perspective obv. Thanks for the info/schoolin CF. It does "Seem" to occur more regularly (school shootings here). I'll look it up and get back to ya, etc. Too early for a Sat :)


Nah, there’s a clear agenda going on but we are getting off the rails here.. They have massacres in Mexico so much that it’s commonplace now, never gets publicized and it’s just across a river...
 

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Nah, there’s a clear agenda going on but we are getting off the rails here.. They have massacres in Mexico so much that it’s commonplace now, never gets publicized and it’s just across a river...
there are a lot of countries that would love to switch places with us as regards shootings like that. Probably 50 or more.
What makes this particular shooting so bad is how virtually EVERYONE from the FBI down COULD HAVE STOPPED IT. And ALL FAILED. So those protesting about guns are frankly useful fools for those that failed in their duty.
 

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Further proof that the Broward County Sheriff is running a $%#@ show of a police force. Like the Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting wasn't enough proof. Sheriff Israel needs to be impeached and removed the Sheriff's position.

This is what happens when you make a post needing a high level of professionalism a political position. Anyone can then do it.
 

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Further proof that the Broward County Sheriff is running a $%#@ show of a police force. Like the Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting wasn't enough proof. Sheriff Israel needs to be impeached and removed the Sheriff's position.

This is what happens when you make a post needing a high level of professionalism a political position. Anyone can then do it.

It's FLORIDA
Lived there for 2 decades.
It's got a nice facade that hides the fact that a significant % of the native population is basically feral
 

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Personally I believe those 4 cops were told to stand down by the Feds. Also many students said they thought it was a Drill because they were told a Drill was going to be done that day with Blanks being fired...
 
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